To throw their hat into the ring, the folks over at Think PHP have their own take on the whole Java versus PHP with their new post - The Switch from Java to PHP.

Having read John's posting, I can tell you something about the switch from Java to PHP.

In our last year's project for the biggest european power supplier E.ON, we ported an application from Microsoft Access to PHP. No Java? Indeed. E.ON had two bids - one from their own IT daughter company, is:energy, and one from another company that bidded with Java. The reason why E.ON chose PHP for that project is the following:

• PHP: about 550 mandays
• Java: more than 2500 mandays

He talks more at length about other examples of Java to PHP conversions that were a complete success...